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Here you will find stories about the North Country. Just writing those words, though, I sense a fight coming. When I lived in Bethlehem, I could unequivocally state that I lived in the North Country, but things got muddy when I moved to North Conway. You see some folks believe the North Country includes only communities north of the state’s four notches: Franconia Notch, Crawford Notch, Pinkham Notch, and Dixville Notch.
For InDepthNH.org’s purposes, we’ll use a little common sense and maybe stretch that a little farther south. And get ready for a call from our columnist John Harrigan, who has been called the King of The North Country, when we get it wrong.
-Nancy West
Attorneys claimed the scientists failed to identify all the wetlands impacted by the project and questioned if restoration efforts would allow the areas to function as they did before construction …
Nancy West | Amy Manzelli, representing the Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, insisted the negative impacts on wetlands would be ten times worse with the plan as proposed than if the transmission line were to be completely buried.
(Washington, DC) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) joined a group of Senators in requesting at least $5 million in federal funding to support maple syrup producers in New Hampshire and across the country.
CONCORD — One person described Northern Pass Transmission as a several-hundred-mile long extension cord from Canada to feed the electric appetite of southern New England without any sweetener for New Hampshire at a public hearing Thursday before the Site Evaluation Committee.
CONCORD — State regulators may be considering an economic trigger for the Northern Pass Transmission project that could ultimately determine whether the project goes forward.
CONCORD — Despite challenges to her economic projections about the benefits of Northern Pass Transmission, an economist hired by developer Eversource stood by her report on the project.
Nancy West | CONCORD — The state Site Evaluation Committee has scheduled three public statement hearings on the Northern Pass Transmission project for people who are not intervenors, but have an interest in the matter.
Nancy West | CONCORD – Attorney Arthur Cunningham left Thursday’s Northern Pass hearing angry after people were told to leave if they hadn’t signed a confidentiality agreement regarding sealed portions of the testimony of Julia Frayer, the project’s economics and project benefits expert.
CONCORD — Developers of the Northern Pass Transmission project were told that now is the time to reach out to Plymouth and Franconia businesses that will be impacted by construction to bury portions of the high-voltage line from the Canadian border to Deerfield.
CONCORD — Construction work on the Northern Pass Transmission project through Concord will impact Karner blue butterfly habitat in the pine barrens, a project official testified Thursday.